Meanwhile Isabel frowned with logic. But it's only that the caterpillar's future is longer and his fate father off. In the end he will die too. Never, never, never, said Fishbein; it is only the butterfly who dies, and then he has long since ceased to be a caterpillar. The caterpillar never dies.--Neither to die nor to be immortal, it is the enviable state, little dear, to live always at the point of beautiful change! That is what it means to be extraordinary--when did I tell you that?--He bethought himself. The first day, of course. It's always best to begin with the end--with the image of what is desired. If I had begun with the beginning I would have bored you, you would have gone away....In my ideal kingdom, little dear, everyone, even the very old, will be passionately in the process of guessing at and preparing for his essential self. Boredom will be unnatural, like a curse, or unhealthy, like a plague. Everyone will be extraordinary.
Cynthia Ozick's Rabbi quite literally was a pagan. Not what you expected. Have you ever heard of a rabbi who converted from Judaism to Paganism? The Pagan Rabbi
is a page-turner, though.
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